Ozgrow is tossing around the idea of setting up a plant/seed collection, to be distributed to gardeners in the fire areas when they are ready to replant.

sounds a great idea. I remember that after the Canberra fires groups would help restore people’s gardens and it was much appreciated.

A list of local fire retardant plants would be a good idea. So that people worked towards prevention while replanting.

I’m prepared to supply plants more capable of not burning and advice on how to keep them that way.

What a great idea.

roughbarked said:

A list of local fire retardant plants would be a good idea. So that people worked towards prevention while replanting.

I’m prepared to supply plants more capable of not burning and advice on how to keep them that way.

Which type of plants are less likely to combust as easily Roughbarked??!! Being in a ‘fire zone’ here , it is of interest. Going to have to replace plants that have been lost in the heatwave .

Have a lot of deciduous trees here .

After more bushes/shrubs for the birds and other critters .

From memory, a fire safe pamphlet for here (Qld) advised that those Australian natives with thick or corky bark, are less likely to contribute embers…

It said that those trees whose leaves don’t contribute to embers (i.e. when they burn they pretty much die as ashes on the wind) are also desirable, introduced species or not…

The cootamundra wattle comes to mind as a native pest: It is fine up here but I believe there are areas in Aust where it has thrived and taken over the locals…

BatZ said:

roughbarked said:

A list of local fire retardant plants would be a good idea. So that people worked towards prevention while replanting.

I’m prepared to supply plants more capable of not burning and advice on how to keep them that way.

Which type of plants are less likely to combust as easily Roughbarked??!! Being in a ‘fire zone’ here , it is of interest. Going to have to replace plants that have been lost in the heatwave .

Have a lot of deciduous trees here .

After more bushes/shrubs for the birds and other critters .

For a start.. Eucalyptus will burn if allowed to get hot and dry enough but wll generally resist fire otherwise.
However there is a reason why bushies use a green wattle stick to hang their billy on and or retrieve it from the fire. because green wattle doesn’t want to burn. Yes dry wattle is a tinderbox so.. one has to have a plan to keep such types of plant green as fire barriers which in turn become fire windbreaks and carefully designed green windbreaks can and have proven to be able to cause the fire to jump right over a house protected in such a way.

There are always plenty of local wattles. There is no need to import weedy wattles.

Think the weedy wattles are here =o|

Is this a cootamundra??!!

BatZ said:

Think the weedy wattles are here =o|

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Is this a cootamundra??!!

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Oh.. and yes.. though the image isn’t all that great for ID.. it still looks like Acacia baileyana yes.

I thought the leaves on a coota were very fine? (Hard to tell from this photo, tho)

I’m not sure what’s going on but the thread on ozgrow seems to have gone.

Last post I read was that they will be waiting to see if they residents are going to rebuild or not ??

The Estate said:

Last post I read was that they will be waiting to see if they residents are going to rebuild or not ??

Good. It was definately too soon.